Beginning Google Maps Applications

We’ve had a few questions about the purpose of apikey.php and db_credentials.php in the online source code. In most instances where the online listings don’t match those presented in the book the inclusion of these two files are the only signicant difference. So here’s a quick explanation…

This is just a quick note for readers who’ve reported problems with the figures in Chapter 10. Due to an issue with the printing process in the first run of Beginning Google Maps Applications, they were much lighter than they should have been, to the point of being almost unreadable.
We’ve made the relevant images available […]

AJAX Magazine and PHP Magazine are offering two copies of our book in a mini contest. If you didn’t win during our giveaway maybe you can run over and try to win there. The contest closes tomorrow (Sunday September 17th, 2006) so don’t delay.
http://ajax.phpmagazine.net/2006/09/beginning_google_maps_applicat.html

Good Luck!

Ravi Kumar over at All About Linux has written a review of our book and gives it a rating of “very good”. You can read the whole review for yourself, but here are a few quotes to whet your appetite.
What I really like about this book is instead of jumping into a theoretical discourse, the […]

Yesterday Google Maps Mania announced that New Zealand and Australia now had address searching on maps.google.com. Last night I started drafting a post that suggested that geocoding for these two countries couldn’t be too far behind. Well, before I could even press “publish” Google announced exactly that.
The examples in Chapter 4 will work perfectly well […]